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Growing Mango Trees

I have been wanting to give this a try, even though it takes many years before the trees produce fruit, so says all the research I have done about growing mango trees from their seeds.

So, I am going to give it a try. I prepped three seeds from mangos that I bought at the grocery store. It will be interesting to see if they germinate, as they say a lot of the produce you get at the grocery store that is not organic will not germinate (much like what you may have seen with the potato/sweet potato experiment posted on youtube).

Anyway – day one. cleaned and scarred the seeds, set them in a container of water. According to the instructions I found, I will need to drain and replace the water every couple of days. They are supposed to take 10 – 14 days to germinate and start to show sprouts.

Stay tuned! If this works, I am going to take at least one, maybe two of these over to the church garden to plant.

Have you ever tried to grow a tree from seed? What kind? Were you successful?

I have an 8 ft. tall grapefruit tree in my office that grew from a seed my friend’s grandson found in his breakfast fruit. I tell everyone it’s a grapefruit bonsai, since the variety grows to 20 ft. in it’s natural habitat. I hope you’re just as lucky with your seeds.

Not so far. I think it may need to be pollinated, and according to what I read about the variety, it needs to be exposed to the cold at a particular time in the growing cycle. But I’m the optimistic sort, so I keep hoping.